Full Issue:

Some tenacious Congressional Democrats launched an historic challenge to the outcome
of the Electoral College vote for the Presidency of the United States. As Lyndon LaRouche
said on the previous day: “The question here is not just this election! It’s the next
one, if we don’t crush what we know was done to create a fraudulent election. In other
words, this election was fraudulent by virtue of the mass of voter suppression....
If we walk away from this now, we end up with no republic. I believe in tenacity in
defending the Constitution.”

From the statements by the challenge initiator, Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones; her
co-challenger, Sen. Barbara Boxer; the Congressman who led the investigation of the
Ohio irregularities, Rep. John Conyers; and an apoplectic Republican House Majority
leader Tom DeLay.

Feature

A webcast speech by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. on Jan. 5. President Bush’s failure to
say a word about the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami for four days, typifies the
crisis of leadership in the world today: the unfolding of a Classical tragedy. “The
challenge before us,” said LaRouche, “the challenge posed by the tsunami, by George
Bush, Jr.’s failure to response to it appropriately, is: Are we, our nation, morally
fit to survive? Is this a test of us?” LaRouche offers solutions, and a method of
statecraft that can still reverse the deepening financial-economic crisis.

National

The Bush Administration and their Attorney General nominee, Alberto Gonzalez, act
like they have something to hide.

Documentation: Twelve retired flag officers released an “Open Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee”
urging that the views of Alberto Gonzales on the role of the Geneva Conventions in
U.S. detention and interrogation policy and practice be explored in detail.

Interviews

General Hoar was Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command (1991-94), commanding the
U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf after the 1991 war. He also served in the VietnamWar.
He is one of a group of senior flag officers who have released a statement calling
for close Congressional scrutiny of the disturbing views of Attorney General nominee
Alberto Gonzales.

The Economic Hit Men

For 50 years, the fight by nations to develop nuclear energy has been the leading
edge of their broader political fight for economic development. Opposition to nuclear
power has sabotaged their development efforts.

International

On the initiative of German Chancellor Schröder, the wealthiest nations issued a draft
declaration from Jakarta, welcoming proposals to reduce the debt of tsunami-hit nations.
A first step in the right direction.

President Xanana Gusmao has proven to be a leader of high principle, courage, and
wisdom, operating from the standpoint of the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended 150
years of bloodshed in Europe in 1648.